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- Turbine’s new free-to-play, microtransaction-based structure, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is now live for anyone who wishes to partake. To play, go to www.ddo.com and download the game.
- After the 4th installment in the Resident Evil series the studio plans to quasi-reboot the series to focus more on an elite military unit designed to fight the zed word.
- Lucasfilm’s Steve Sansweet discussed the live-action Star Wars series at DragonCon. Preproduction is set to start soon, but likely the show won’t air till 2012. Its considered likely that Daniel Logan will return as Bobba Fett to the series. Logan played the young incarnation of Fett in Attack of the Clones.
- The new Judge Dredd movie may have a new script. Comic artist Jock recently twittered that he was working on script visuals for an Alex Garland written script.
- Darkstone Entertainment and indie director John Johnson are remaking Plan 9 from Outer Space. Johnson says he’s remaking the film as a non-campy, “character-driven” move that will be “very scary.” He’s calling it Plan 9, or just P9. This is in direct opposition to the campy so bad its good of the original.
- Children of Men and Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are working to complete the live action Akira script, and that the project is still considered a “high priority” with a potential 2011 release date if the script is approved.
- In Rambo 5 the sly hero will be taking on an Arctic military base where scientists are working to create elite super soldiers with no qualms about killing.
- William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared together at a Dragon Con panel. The two continued their long lived needling with Nimoy opening up with “Seen any good movies recently?” Trekkies lined up as early as 5 am to see the two titans together.
- Richard Curtis, the creator of Blackadder and driving force behind Comic Relief, is to write an episode of Doctor Who. Curtis, whose career includes Notting Hill, Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral, will write an episode starring the new doctor, Matt Smith. Of the plot, he would only reveal: “There will be a monster. And a famous historical figure will battle the monster.”
- Rose McGowan was seriously injured filming for fiancé Robert Rodriguez’s movie remake of the comic book franchise Red Sonja, the actress has revealed. McGowan suffered severe injuries to her elbow and wrist while filming stunts for Red Sonja. As a result of her injuries, the film has been placed on indefinite hiatus. The injury was serious enough to require surgery to remove part of her elbow. The actress reportedly endured nerve damage severe enough that her arm was virtually useless. Only now, she says, is she regaining the ability to eat and drive with the injured limb and faces another six months of physical rehab. She posted a twitter update that she plans to return to filming the movie when she can.
- New Line Cinema and trustees for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate said on Tuesday they had settled a lawsuit that clears the way for “The Hobbit” which is is being made into two films by Guillermo Del Toro. Tolkien’s estate sued New Line claming it was owed more than 150$ million for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Nicholas Cage has turned down the role of the villain in the Green Hornet movie.
Ben Ketai has been named the director of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, the sequel to the 2007 vampire thriller 30 Days of Night.
- Comic book artist Chris Weston is used to drawing crime fighters but became one himself when he witnessed a robbery at his local bank. Unfortunately for the robber, Weston applied his artistic talents to briefly become a sketch artist. The police had picked up the suspect and will use his drawings in the prosecution.
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